Valve continues to print quite a bit of money and has released its latest annual review. 2023 looks like it’s going to be a great year for Steam.
This time, they didn’t reveal as many details about Steam’s overall growth. Notes about monthly or daily active users were not available as before. And most of the posts simply describe features added for users and developers during 2023. a bit The details and what they showed were still really surprising.
One of those surprising marks is physical wallet cards, with Valve saying that between December 20 and December 31, 2023, “players redeemed more than $80 million in physical wallet cards.” said. That’s why we have a lot of giveaways going on! Valve also said that while these physical cards are “some of the most expensive payment methods we support,” the benefits for both developers and Steam users are clear.
Valve also compared the 2022 and 2023 Steam Autumn Sale to show that many developers managed to find success, one of the factors for growth. The number of games with revenue over $1 million increased by 21%.
| Steam Autumn Sale | Increase from 2022 to 2023 |
| Games with revenue over $1,000 | +19% |
| Games with revenue over $10,000 | +17% |
| Games with revenue over $100,000 | +17% |
| Games with revenue over $500,000 | +19% |
| Games with revenue over $1 million | +21% |
Another big highlight is that 2023 was the first year in Steam’s entire history that more than 500 games grossed more than $3 million in one year, Valve said. said that the number of hit games was more than double compared to 2018.
However, not only existing well-known developers are doing well. As Valve points out in its monthly top 20 grossing game releases, in 2023 more than a quarter of that was from studios releasing on Steam for the first time.
2023 was also the year that Steam’s concurrent users exceeded 33 million for the first time.
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Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
